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The ECLS-K:2024 was poised to reveal how pandemic-era disruptions shaped the school readiness of today’s kindergarteners, but the study was canceled leaving parents and educators unsure as to how to help our youngest students succeed in school
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Dr. Ken Elpus from UMD shares how losing access to rich, national data like NCES’ affects the field of arts education and downstream users of the data.
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By: Kathleen Flanagan, Ph.D. Department of Education Cuts The Federal Department of Education (ED) was largely decimated by the 2025 DOGE budget cuts. Staffing at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the research and measurement arm of ED responsible for running the federally mandated NAEP Program (e.g., the National Assessment of Educational Progress), was…
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Social media discussions about education often feature confident assertions that don’t hold up under scrutiny. Recently on Reddit, I encountered two typical claims about private and charter schools: “Many charter and private schools have vastly better student outcomes for far less money per-student.” “There are charter schools with near 100% college acceptance rates for seniors.…
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